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UN flags at half-mast to mark Kim's funeral
2011-12-29
The flag of the United Nations flew at half-mast Wednesday at the world's body headquarters in New York and its Geneva offices to mark the funeral for late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.

Choi Soung-ah, a spokeswoman for UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, said it was customary practice for the UN flag to be lowered to half-mast upon the deaths of leaders of UN member states.
No matter how tyrannical and evil...
The non-governmental organization UN Watch said while protocol had to be followed, "the world body must not forget that its founding purpose is to defend basic human rights."

"Sadly, that message is at serious risk of being blurred today," UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said. "Today should be a time for the UN to show solidarity with the victims -- the millions of North Koreans brutalized by Kim's merciless policies of starvation and oppression -- and not with the perpetrators."
I'm surprised they said anything. Usually this is something progressive NGOs just hope will go away without notice...
Posted by:Steve White

#10  It's a frying-pan/fire situation I think. The whole top leadership will need to be decapitated and their army castrated. The army will always have the guns (and therefore the food) unless something fundamental about human nature changes.
Posted by: gorb   2011-12-29 21:58  

#9  Amen indeed, Slomp Oppressor of the Faeries1490. Speedily, speedily, in our day.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-12-29 21:55  

#8  Boi Chaz Bono has quite the righteous 2.5 ton hand-warmer thingy going on...KEWL KIMCHI !!

May G+D please deliver the Gen Pop in NORK from this newest Demon, AMEN.
Posted by: Slomp Oppressor of the Faeries1490   2011-12-29 21:22  

#7  At which point "You'll be able to have a hell of a weekend in Vegas" with the corpse of Kim Jong-Dead.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2011-12-29 15:55  

#6  You know, the Liberace museum closed last year due to dwindling visitors. The NORKS might still be able to get a good deal on all the stuff they've got stored in a warehouse in Las Vegas.
Posted by: lotp   2011-12-29 15:04  

#5  Is it just me or does this remind you of one of those Mafia funerals from the 30s?

As for the United Nuttiness, or a Fred calls it, the Oyster Bay Marching Band and Chowder Society, to espouse a higher moral tone on human rights issues and then fly flags at half mast for him is DISGUSTING. And to add the fact that they did not do this for Ronnie Reagan or any other US President (although they LOVE BO and will probably fly flags at half mast when he is not reelected).
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2011-12-29 11:58  

#4  Yep, awesome car - just missing the chandeliers on the hood.
Posted by: RandomJD   2011-12-29 09:39  

#3  Oh I'm sure Carter and Halfbright dearly miss him. The've never met a murdering dictator they didn't love.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-12-29 09:06  

#2  That is just an awesome car.
Posted by: gromky   2011-12-29 04:50  

#1  OK so the UN will miss him, nobody else.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-12-29 01:11  

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